Background Independence in Classical and Quantum Gravity

James Read, Associate Professor, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford and Tutorial Fellow, Pembroke College, Oxford

James Read is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford. He studied Physics and Philosophy at Oxford, and Mathematics at Cambridge, before completing a doctorate in Philosophy from Oxford in 2018. He works in the philosophy of physics, in particular on issues in the foundations of spacetime theories and symmetries. His work has won various international awards, including the Hanneke Janssen Prize and Clifton Memorial Prize.